NICE in the UK issues recommendation for Sleepio app, the digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia by Big Health

By SharpBrains | May 24, 2022

Sleepio becomes first dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic to receive NICE guid­ance (Mobi­Health­News): The Nation­al Insti­tute for Health and Care Excel­lence (NICE) has rec­om­mend­ed the Sleepio app as an effec­tive alter­na­tive to sleep­ing pills. In its guid­ance, NICE states the app, cre­at­ed by dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics (DTx) firm Big Health, is a safe and effec­tive treat­ment for peo­ple suf­fer­ing from…

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Study: Self-guided sleep app Sleepio, combined with standard care for depression and anxiety, delivers better outcomes than standard care alone

By SharpBrains | September 27, 2021

Study backs ben­e­fit of insom­nia DTx Sleepio on men­tal health (pharmapho­rum): The study – pub­lished in the jour­nal Behav­iour Research and Ther­a­py – test­ed the Sleepio app devel­oped by dig­i­tal health spe­cial­ist Big Health as an add-on to stan­dard NHS care for anx­i­ety and depres­sion under the improv­ing access to psy­cho­log­i­cal ther­a­pies (IAPT) pol­i­cy. Patients…

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